Day 15 — Fit Test and Biweekly Wrapup

Well, the first two weeks are over and the results are in. My lowest improvement over my initial fit test was 7% in Power Knees, with my largest improvement being 50% in Suicide Jumps. Now to be fair, these are statistical outliers because I started with 100 Power Knees—which makes every percent of improvement harder to obtain—whereas I started with merely 8 Suicide Jumps, improving to 12—in which case each additional rep was worth over 10% improvement.

However, one that was nice to see and a general baseline was Power Jumps. I started with 20 of those and did 30 in today's test—another improvement of 50%. The good news here is that each additional rep was only worth 5%, so this 50% is worth get excited about. The other satisfying things are the bar graphs which are all larger for today's date, and to see that most of the lines are either linear, or concave up since my "initial" fit test in November at the beginning of my last Insanity attempt. The concave up denotes that I am not only improving compared to the fit test on the first day of this Insanity attempt, but also that I am improving faster than I did over a nearly two month span of time beforehand—during which I wasn't exactly idle.

So, I'm sold. I know that I need to eat healthier and I have a long way to go, but that improvement was great to see in cold hard numbers. I'm ready for the second half of month one to get going! That's thirteen down—forty-one left to go!

Links:

My Daily Workout Log and Fit Test Results